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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:36:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv652a5unz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5is6a7cw8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:14:47 +0100")

>> Yes, I do, because that's what Emacs is receiving when I press
>> Meta-left, for example.  More specifically, when I type
>> Meta-left at Emacs running in xterm it receives the key sequence
>> [?\e ?\e ?O ?D], which gets translated to [?\e left] through
>> function-key-map.
>> 
>> That is a surprise to me.  Someone must have changed this in recent
>> years.

> He did not say what his input terminal is.  It may not be X.

He said it's an xterm.  I see the same behavior as he does.
It's been that way for as long as I can remember (the Meta->ESC mapping
done by xterm is an option, which needs to be ON if you want 8bit chars).


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-06 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-03 15:16 M-<function-key> vs. ESC <function-key> Andreas Schwab
2005-01-04  3:36 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04 12:01   ` Lennart Borgman
2005-01-05  3:31     ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04 13:02   ` Andreas Schwab
2005-01-05  3:31     ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-05 19:43       ` Andreas Schwab
2005-01-06  4:54         ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-06 12:16           ` Andreas Schwab
2005-01-07  2:49             ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-07  6:36               ` Miles Bader
2005-01-07 13:14               ` Andreas Schwab
2005-01-06 16:14           ` David Kastrup
2005-01-06 17:36             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-01-06 18:03               ` David Kastrup
2005-01-06 18:30                 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-06 19:20                   ` David Kastrup

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